[Haskell-cafe] question concerning ANSI "void *"

[Galchin Vasili]

Hello,

     Ok .. I am writing a Haskell function that will call down into the ANSI
C library .. blah :: .... -> Ptr Word8 ....-> .... The underlying C function
that "blah" is calling has a "void *" so I am using "Ptr Word  8" to model
the "void *". I propose to have the callers of function "blah" to populate a
data structure something like "Ptr Buz" where "data Buz = { ........} and
then do a "recast :: Ptr Word 8 -> Ptr Buz" when invoking function "blah".
Does this seem reasonable? Is there a better way?

Thanks, Vasili
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